Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry David

It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

Utada Hikaru

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

Richard Steele

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Dick Cheney

First of all, I have great affection and respect for Halliburton. It's a fine company, and I'm pleased that I was associated with a company and with the men and women of Halliburton, some 83,000 strong around the world, during my tenure there,

Customers have started to develop an affinity for these devices, not only for the utility, but also because they represent a level of status, of personalization and of choice.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away--the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us--is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Lewis Thomas

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at.

Bette Midler

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience's affection inside a Broadway theater - that didn't come easily to me.

Peter Cushing

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

Mick Foley

With respect to our audience and our concern over inappropriate material for our WWF viewers, we do, however, ask Mr. Gore to keep his public displays of affection to a minimum.

Amaury Nolasco

These displays of affection mean a lot to our family and are a reminder of the heart that my people have. In this time of grief we ask for a little privacy and space to digest this news; our sister was our sun and we are broken by her departure.

These are two people who feel it's okay to be out in public and showing their affection.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Robert Frost

Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

Richard Wagner

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Florence Nightingale

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

John Lubbock

Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Diego Forlan

considering that it is impossible to talk about affection and feelings with a heartless man. Maybe drugs have made him so, but now I have had enough of (his) nastiness.

John Caudwell

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

Lyndon Johnson

It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaction and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilization. It is what we seek today.

Thomas Fuller

That trial is not fair where affection is judge

Lord Byron

Alas! our young affections run to waste, / Or water but the desert.

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.

Avi

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.

How nearly is natural affection connected with the love of God (for if we love not our Brother whom we have seen how can we love God whom we have not seen how can we love God whom we have not seen), but I live in hopes and expectation of several upon the road, which may arrive, perhaps sooner than I expect.

Robert Osborne

He shows great potential, but he's not there yet. But they weren't 'there' after being in the public eye for as short a time as Clooney has. It takes a long time to be a Cary Grant, to win the affection of the world the way he did.

Amitabh Bachchan

I cannot stop them. This is their affection and love and we live for this. And I hope that this love and affection remains with us so that we are inspired to work more and be able to satisfy their desires and expectations,

I believe he has a deep interest and concern and affection for the community. He is a thoughtful person and reflects the values of the community.

James Gates Percival

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

Francis Bacon

The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.

Charles Inglis

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.